Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00218)

In a message dated 03/11/04 4:24:36 PM, stevestubbs@yahoo.com writes:

>--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Meredith" 
>
><bill_meredith@e...> wrote:
>
>> Neither you nor Leon have gained the complete understanding of 
>meditation.
>
>I cannot speak for Leon but it is certainly true in my case that I 
>have not gained the complete understanding of meditation or anything 
>else. It is a continuous and endless unfolding.
>
>I met a Chinese master years ago who is now deceased. He spokse no 
>English but I was told by his prize student (who spoke both Chinese 
>and English and is married to a Chinese woman, or was at the time) 
>that even though this master had studied since he was six (he died at 
>age 82) he was reluctant to put anything in writing or other tangible 
>form because after 76 years of study he did not feel that he knew 
>enough yet to leave such a record. (He did teach.) He was very 
>highly regarded in his native country, so this should be interpreted 
>with that in mind. He is no longer with us, but I presume what he 
>meant by that was that since he was constantly learning, any document 
>he could leave behind might be mooted by his continuing unfolding 
>insight. Our western society teaches that one must arrive at a final 
>dogma of some sort which will obviate the need for more learning. 
>But this master struck me as far wiser, and as a man who knew that if 
>such a final word existed, the sincere student would hope never to 
>actually attain it, but to always be pursuing it, as a straggler in 
>the desert chases the horizon.

I agree with you about learning. But sometimes I think it's good to write 
down what you already know (or think you know) so that others can critique your 
possible errors or misinterpretations and teach you something new. It's also 
good practice for some to write down their thoughts -- since the editing 
process, which requires rereading from an objective (or students) point of view and 
subsequent revision, continues to add to your knowledge. I learned much 
modern science by trying to explain the Secret Doctrine metaphysics from a post 
Einstein modern scientific point of view. I started this when I read HPB's 
recommendation for theosophists in the 20th century to write their own Secret 
Doctrines. 

When I found that my intuitive non-mathematical geometric and topological 
visualization methods led to the same conclusion as the multidimensional 
mathematics of superstring/M-brane theory that synthesized both relativity and quantum 
physics, I didn't have to learn anything about the symbolic math of any of 
those scientific theories. Even Einstein worked out his entire theory of 
relativity with diagrams and words long before he had to invent a new mathematics of 
tensor analysis to prove it. In fact his argument with Niels Bohr was that a 
true scientific theory must be able to be explained in simple language that 
can be understood by a 12 year old. Unfortunately, Bohr won that argument and 
henceforth relativity theory could never be coordinated mathematically with 
quantum theory. 

It's interesting that HPB used no mathematics, other than simple numerical 
relationships and sparse symbolic diagrams to explain her deep and complex 
metaphysical theories -- that not only is consistent with my holographic ABC field 
theory, but also presages relativity and quantum physics and their 
consolidation in superstring theory -- while explaining the chemical and physiological 
linkages between body, mind, and consciousness (which HPB said would be the 
final proof of theosophy). After writing about this for over ten years, it's only 
recently that a question about something I wrote on ABC in a letter here, 
closed the final gap between the encoding of the genesis of the Cosmos and the 
DNA genetic code. Science has yet only scratched the surface in explaining how 
the form of the body and all its subordinate organs and bone structures are 
encoded in the genes -- e.g. How my face carries the shapes of both my mother 
and father, or why my nails appear at the ends of my fingers and toes.

As for meditation, I wonder how anyone can know how much of an understanding 
of it anyone else has. Can anyone recognize an Adept or Master by simply 
reading anything he writes or even says? And, what can we know about the 
difference between the first and seventh level of Mastery?